Coal miners in the U.S. are facing the biggest rise in the debilitating black lung disease in decades as mine bosses drive to speed up production and reduce the number of unionized mines to maximize their profits. In Appalachia, one…
Oberlin College has complied with an order to post a $36 million bond by July 31, while it appeals a guilty verdict against it for slandering Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family in Oberlin, Ohio. This represents the total amount…
The selection below is from Capitalism and the Transformation of Africa: Reports from Equatorial Guinea by Mary-Alice Waters and Martín Koppel. The title is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for August. The two authors visited the country in…
Sixty-six years ago on July 26, workers and youth, led by Fidel Castro, attacked the Moncada military barracks in Santiago, Cuba. The brutal regime of Fulgencio Batista had seized power, cancelled elections and arrested or murdered those who challenged his…
August 22, 1994 YORK, Pennsylvania — After 42 days on the picket line, members of the United Auto Workers on strike against Caterpillar pushed back a company-organized back-to-work campaign. Caterpillar is acting as the point man in the employers’ assault…
With the impoundment of issue no. 26 of the Militant, Florida prison officials have now censored 10 of the last 12 issues of the paper. The last six were all banned for featuring articles about the authorities’ previous censorship! The…
It is now five years since Islamic State seized large swaths of territory in Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan and launched a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi people in Sinjar, Nineveh and elsewhere in northern Iraq. And two years since the…
The July 23 march of some half a million people in San Juan, Puerto Rico, made it clear that the daily actions there since July 13 won’t stop until Ricardo Rosselló resigns as governor. And that his resignation won’t put…
All the daily big-business press — and discussions by workers in bodegas, ball games and barbecues — this week have touched on the 50th anniversary of the U.S. 1969 moon launch and Buzz Aldrin’s and Neil Armstrong’s walks there. Of…
VALPARAISO, Ind. — Some 80 striking members of International Association of Machinists Local 2018 rallied here July 15 ahead of afternoon negotiations with Regal Beloit bosses. They were joined by family members and other area unionists in a lively protest…
